Needed,Chapter 02

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The book was horrible. I spent all night reading it, and it seemed like a handbook for all the evil things, something Voldemort would carry around in his student days.

But the question remained, why did Malfoy want this book? Definitely for some evil purpose, and it made me squeamish thinking that Malfoy was up to something. Until now I just imagined him as a bully who enjoyed torturing people just for kicks, but now, this justified that he was up to some serious dark stuff and he was following his father's footsteps in becoming the ultimate death eater.

There was a knock on the door, and a chubby third year came.

"Yes?", I asked.

"Professor Snape asked you to meet him in his office in twenty minutes" she said.

I was confused. Snape? Asking ME to meet him? That too on a non-school day?

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Twenty minutes later I was outside Snape's office, knocking at his office door.

"Come in", his cold voice dawdled.

His Dungeon was empty, cold and devoid of any light. It made me shiver a little.

"You might be wondering why I called you here, Miss Granger", Snape said.

"Yes, I wondered about it", I said.

"I called you here, because there's an important task I want you to do, and I would appreciate it if you keep this a secret and not tell Potter or Weasley..."

Now this was definitely weird...I could only nod in response.

"I made an unbreakable vow to Narcissa,Draco Malfoy's mother,to keep him safe, to protect him from...whatever he is doing. But unfortunately he seems to know that I am keeping tabs on him and is successful in evading me...and so I have, well, a request".

"A request?"

"I want you to follow Draco and report to me what he is up to every week. Understand that this is purely for the purpose of the Order and Dumbledore himself has given me orders to keep a close eye on him",Snape continued, ignoring me.

"But why me?" I asked astonished at his strange 'request'.

"Because you are the unlikeliest person he would expect to be spied on by, and also, you are smarter than I have ever given credit."He said, though with a sneer, as if he didn't like admitting it.

"So, is it clear Miss Granger?"

"Yes sir", I meekly replied, unable to think of anything else.

My mind was in turmoil on the way back from Snape's dungeons. Was Malfoy really up to something so evil that Dumbledore himself wished to keep an eye on him? And Malfoy didn't trust Snape, of all people, whom he worshiped with a reverence, since the start of school? And most importantly, would I be able to keep an eye on him, when Snape himself had failed?

With all this in mind, I had just reached the seventh floor, when I thought I saw a flash of blond hair around the corner.

Malfoy?

I quickly cast a silent Disillusionment charm over myself and hurried to catch him up. I saw him standing before a wall. Was he already up to something? Would I catch him? And then it dawned on me...it was the room of requirement!

He reached out and opened the door, and suddenly, I had an insane idea, and I rushed behind him, hoping to enter the room before the door could close. I caught it and found myself standing in a strange room. It was piled floor to ceiling with all kind of broken objects, subjects of innumerable illegal tests. It was sort of junkyard or place for...hiding things?

He made his way through the piles as if he had been living there for ages. I found him standing in front of a cabinet, it was so big that I could easily fit into it. He was muttering some inaudible incantations. It was surprising that Malfoy had already mastered nonverbal curses, when even Harry and Ron were still struggling with it, but then Malfoy was always good at magic, if not as good as me.

For almost an hour he stood there muttering spell, putting things inside the cabinet, and not only was I exhausted, but I was starting to get impatient. What could he possibly be doing in here to demand my presence to monitor him? Things looked harmless enough. Could this be Snape's way of making sure I wasted my time?he abruptly turned and kicked a stool, which was lying nearby, so hard that it hit the wall and broke into splinters.

"Why the hell is the fucking thing not working?" He yelled.

Clearly, whatever he was trying to do was not going well.

He stood there for a minute, taking deep breaths, and I could see the anger ebbing out of him. His shoulders drooped and for that brief minute, he looked so miserable and vulnerable, that I almost felt sorry for him. Almost.

He ran a shaking hand through his hair, muttered something incomprehensible to himself, and started towards the door.

I was creeping behind him, when, in my rush to keep him in sight, I knocked over a crumbly old vase standing on a chair. It shattered on the ground.

Both of us froze. He slowly turned around, his expression guarded.

"Who's there?" he asked. Quietly.

I stood frozen on the spot, not even daring to breathe.

"Homenum revelio" He cried, and suddenly there was odd sensation of something swooping over me, and before I could even as much as point my wand, he yelled"sectumsempra".

The spell hit me square in the chest.

The pain was indescribable. I felt as if every inch of my body was cut open, as if red hot pokers were stuffed in every inch of my body. No physical pain I had ever endured came even close to do this. I opened my mouth, but only a silent cry escaped my lips. I could feel the blood seeping out of me, the lights dancing in front of my eyes, and the last thing I saw before I blacked out was, Malfoy looking down at me, with open horror and shock on his face.

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